Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Biology 1 Unit 5 Day 2

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Objective: Students will illustrate and explain the process of photosynthesis by completing anchor chart notes and using the words  light reaction, photosystems I & II, chloroplast, thylakoid, Calvin Cycle, NADPH, glucose.

Questions:
1) What are the end products of photosynthesis? (5.1.1 p 2)
2) What are photosystems and why are they important? (5.1.4 p 3)
3) What happens in the light reaction? (5.1.1 p 11)

Exit Ticket: What role does light play in photosynthesis? Use the following sentence stem "Light is important to photosynthesis because..." and at least 2 green words from the objective above.